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The Medicare co-payment has been scrapped almost a year after it was first mooted.
The federal government has scrapped its unpopular plan for a GP co-payment, Health Minister Sussan Ley has confirmed.
"It is clear the proposal for a co-pay

The Medicare co-payment has been scrapped almost a year after it was first mooted.
The federal government has scrapped its unpopular plan for a GP co-payment, Health Minister Sussan Ley has confirmed.
"It is clear the proposal for a co-pay

Queensland’s nursing and midwifery workforce will receive an injection of 4000 graduate nurses and legislated patient ratios under the newly-elected State Government.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has reiterated her commitment to restoring t

Giving anti-viral drugs to sexually active gay men when they are healthy could reduce their chance of becoming infected with HIV by 86 per cent.
A game-changing trial has shown that rates of HIV infection can be slashed by treating actively gay me

A report into Victoria's public hospitals has highlighted many are in a precarious financial position.
Cash levels at 12 Victorian public hospitals were so low last year they only had enough money to last a week.
An Auditor-General's re

There is an increased risk of violence in individuals with clinical depression, researchers say.
A diagnosis of depression increases the risk of committing violent crime three-fold, research has shown.
The study of nearly 50,000 people in Swede

Despite the huge numbers of people now using mobile phones, there hasn't been a corresponding increase in brain cancers, researchers say.
If mobile phones are supposed to increase the risk of brain tumours, there is no evidence of it in cancer

Pharmacy students are stepping into virtual hospital and community pharmacies through an innovative training room.
The new interactive teaching tool at Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus projects high-definition panoramic interactive im

More than 450 trained and accredited pharmacist vaccinators in community pharmacies across New Zealand will play a vital role in this year’s influenza campaign.
As Australia inches closer to pharmacist-delivered vaccinations, New Zealand pha

Tributes are flooding in for medical marijuana champion Dan Haslam, who lost his battle with bowel cancer this week.
The 25-year-old, who died on February 24 in his home town of Tamworth, and his family waged a public campaign to legalise medical